Chapter 164 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“What are you doing?” Sonia asked in a weak voice without resisting his pull.

“Relax. I just want to hold you,” Bryan said, as though it was the most natural thing in the world.

Sonia didn’t know what to make of it, but she didn’t mind either, so she relaxed against him and let him wrap both hands around her waist while she rested her head in the crook of his neck, inhaling his scent.

Somehow after their little misunderstanding the previous day, and their exchange earlier that morning, there seemed to have been a shift in the dynamics of their relationship. Although he hadn’t made any grand proclamation about being in love with her, he had made her feel that her feelings for him were welcome.

One of Bryan’s hands moved from her waist to her back and he patted her softly as he thought about his feelings for her and how to go about handling them since he was yet to completely understand what he was feeling. Was he perhaps feeling this way about her because she was the only available woman around? Was it a case of the available becoming desirable because the desirable is unavailable? Bryan wondered.

After all that transpired between them the previous day, and how they had been able to resolve it last night, followed by what had happened earlier this morning when he caught her wanting to kiss him, he was beginning to suspect that the feeling was mutual between them, and that made him feel even more drawn to her now.

He was very tempted to tell her how he was feeling, and find out from her if it was mutual, but first, he needed to get out of the wheelchair and go out to see other girls. He needed to be absolutely sure of what he felt before telling her about it.

“You know we don’t seem like a fake couple right now, right?” Sonia asked with a sigh after some time.

“Does it bother you?” Bryan asked, making her sit up to look into his face.

“No, it doesn’t,” she said with a shake of her head.

“Then let’s not worry our head about any of that, okay?” He asked, and she gave him a nod.

“Have I told you that I don’t like your new hairdo?” Bryan asked, making her raise a brow.

“That wasn’t the impression I got when you were drooling over me with dropped jaws the other day,” Sonia said dryly.

“I don’t remember drooling. I want to bury my fingers in your hair, but I can’t do that with this hairdo,” Bryan said with a sigh.

“Too bad I’m going to keep rocking this hairdo until further notice, so get used to it,” Sonia said with a grin.

He hadn’t expected anything better from her anyway. She was still the stubborn Sonia he knew after all, “Suit yourself. By the way, weren’t you trying to reach your best friend earlier?” He asked, reminding her that she had been worried over not hearing from Celsie earlier.

“Yeah, thanks for the reminder! I should go check my phone,” Sonia said as she started to get off his thighs.

“I didn’t say you could leave yet,” Bryan said with a grin as he kissed the crook of her neck.

Sonia giggled as she tried to push his head away, “Stop doing that! It tickles.”

“Why should I stop?” Bryan asked with a slightly raised brow.

“Because I need to go check on her again, and we have people waiting for us, so quit fooling around,” Sonia said, laughing uncontrollably and trying to get off Bryan’s thighs when he moved from her neck to her ears and began to tickle her sides.

“I will let you go on one condition,” Bryan said, enjoying the sound of Sonia’s laughter.

“What is it?” Sonia asked curiously.

“First promise me you will do it,” Bryan said.

“You first have to tell me what it is,” Sonia insisted.

“Well, it’s something you can easily do, trust me.”

“You’re not going to ask me to disappear from your life, are you?” Sonia asked, narrowing her eyes suspiciously.

“Move back into this bedroom.”

Sonia’s face lit up with a bright smile at his words, “Is my hearing poor? Or did you just forget to include a please in your request?” Sonia asked, making Bryan grin as he stopped tickling her.

“I guess your hearing is poor, cause I actually said, could you please move back into this bedroom? How could you not have heard that?” Bryan asked incredulously making Sonia giggle merrily.

“Yeah. I thought I heard that,” Sonia said with a satisfied smile. The previous night when he had been about to leave her bedroom and she had called out his name to stop him, she had wanted to ask him if he would love for her to move back into his bedroom. She was glad that she didn’t have to be the one to bring it up anymore.

“So? Will you?” Bryan asked, looking at her with hopeful eyes.

Sonia sighed. Call her confused, but in as much as she wanted to move into his bedroom with him and do a lot of things with him, she knew her feelings were involved, and she still needed to be very careful lest she gets hurt, “What are we doing, Bryan?” She asked, still sitting on his thighs and looking into his face.

He should have known Sonia was the type to ask such direct questions. Knowing how sensitive she was, he wanted to be as honest with her as he could.

Bryan let out a long breath, “I don’t know if it’s too early to say this, but I think I might be falling for you. However, I don’t want to give this thing between us a name yet, until I’m very sure about my exact feelings for you,” Bryan confessed looking into her eyes as he raised a hand to pat her cheek in a loving gesture.

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